National Education Policy –
State Report
This
document is not the Policy or Decision of Government of Maharashtra. State
level seminar was held on 5th & 6th November 2015 to consider the
suggestions & opinions expressed at the discussions held at Village, Taluka
& District level on New Education Policy.
This
document is a corrected collection of main suggestions & points discussed
in the above seminars & discussions.
Official
recommendations of Government of Maharashtra will be framed after suggestions
received from public on this document. Government of Maharashtra shall not
recommend anything that violates the provisions in Existing Enactments,
Constitution of India or Judicial decisions.
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New Analysis
The state education department has
issued revised guidelines for the new state education policy after some of its
earlier guidelines - such as eight hours of school and compulsory Marathi
education - received a lot of flak from teachers and academicians. The new
guidelines, released as a 39 page document on Sunday, omitted some of these
earlier suggestions.
"This document is a corrected collection of suggestions and points discussed over [multiple] seminars and discussions [with committees of teachers and stakeholders].
"This document is a corrected collection of suggestions and points discussed over [multiple] seminars and discussions [with committees of teachers and stakeholders].
Official recommendations of Government of Maharashtra will be framed after suggestions received from public on this document," the release stated. The department will be accepting suggestions and objections to the guidelines till December 18.
In November, Mirror had reported about the objections raised by principals and several stakeholders, like NGOs and student organisations, to what they called an ambiguous and unconstitutional set of guidelines that proposed to remove reservations in education. However, the new guidelines are not without their detractors.
"While the government has removed the controversial suggestions, there is a lot of ambiguity about what its take is on student protests, such as the one underway against the scrapping of non-NET fellowships, or on imposing surveillance in campuses in the name of safety," said Ghanshyam Sonar, who campaigns against the commercialisation of education.
STUDENTS, TEACHERS TO PROTEST AGAINST NEW GUIDELINES TODAY
Students in the city will be joining the Right to Education Forum's Mumbai wing in a show of solidarity on Monday as they stage a protest against what they see as a lopsided recommendation without specific mention of provisions for the disadvantaged groups in society. "The earlier suggestions have been removed as mistakes, but the government still seems to be more concerned about private investment in education, encouraging it under Corporate Social Responsibility, rather than giving prominence to the existing public institutions like government schools and colleges," said Ajmal Khan, a research scholar from the city who will be joining the protests.
"The guidelines talk about the use of ICT and technology, when almost all BMC schools in the city do not have functional computer labs. Do they have any recommendation to solve this issue?" asked the principal of a school in Malad.
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